the Scott Stein

For the first "Featured Author" entry, we have one of the greats. Maybe it should be Greats. Or GREATS. Fyodor Dostoevsky is about as good as it gets in fiction. I would start with a couple of the short works, novellas really: “Notes from Underground” and “The Gambler.” His first novel, Poor Folk, is also a good early choice for those working up to the long, famous novels. Then, Crime and Punishment is the great novel you need to read. Of course, this is Dostoevsky we’re talking about, so they’re pretty much all considered great. And I don’t mean great as in, “That was a great sandwich.” Someone once said (or at least I remember hearing or thinking) that while it could be argued that Crime and Punishment is the greatest novel ever written, there is disagreement over whether it is even Dostoevsky’s best. But it’s my favorite.